Word: metting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...affaires at La Paz, Bolivia, immediately suggested neutral investigation of whatever had occurred in Gran Chaco. The reply of the Bolivian government was to break off relations with Paraguay last fortnight, and to send more Bolivian soldiers last week into Gran Chaco, where at least 200 humans met death in circumstances impossible to ascertain...
Artist Arno, no publicist, discourages the inquisitive by mingling truth with legend. "My art studies," he states, "have been principally pursued in dark alleys. ... I met with overnight success which ended the next morning. ... I have an oil painting in the Yale permanent collection, where no one will ever see it. ... At the age of three I was seduced by an old lady with a long grey beard...
...business of the conference was, as must be, general. Research engineers and aerodynamists met and discussed their technical problems. Transport men heard papers on airgraphics (meteorology), airways, airports, organization, operation and maintenance of airlines, radio directors, electro-magnetic compasses, altitude finding by radio echo. Private flying-clubs, a successful stimulant to aviation in England, are beginning to appear in the U. S. Significant was the observation that air travel now costs the passenger only 14? a mile against railroad fare of 4? a mile...
...Fomona, Calif., 75 dwarfs met together to form the Small Men's Association of America, comprising only human beings less than four feet high, of which they became charter members. Midgets, little men who are not, like dwarfs, in some way stunted or deformed, could become associate members. There was no reason for forming the association except that the dwarfs wished to band themselves together...
...March of last year, two members of the Liberal Club met speakers from Lincoln University in Tremont Temple, Boston on the question of the intermixing of races. No decision was rendered...